Client news: Appleton Coated introduces Utopia Inkjet Gloss

the first North American manufacturer with a full product line optimized for high-speed digital inkjet web platforms

Client news: Kolbe adds Ultra Folding Door 3-D models to BIM library

Kolbe’s Folding Doors can accommodate up to eight panels on each side that fold back against each other to create expansive openings that span up to 45-feet.

Client news: Linetec honored as Wisconsin’s Sustainable Manufacturer of the Year

Sustainability Grand Award nominees were required to demonstrate a commitment and measured proof of conserving natural resources, improving energy efficiency, reducing their carbon footprint, and promoting employee and community betterment.

Association news: AAMA task groups progress on Green Certification Program

The Green and Sustainability Specification Development Task Group members reviewed comments from the Residential Product Group (RPG) ballot of the AAMA Green Product Certification Program criteria for R and LC class products. The Green and Sustainability Procedural Guide Task Group began reviewing ballot results of the procedural guide, a document that will define the procedures and documentation required to earn green product certification.

Client news: Tubelite expands production capabilities and capacity at Michigan manufacturing facilities

“As part of our strategic plan for continuous improvement and growth, this investment increases our capacity and capabilities, while maintaining the dependable, high-quality of our products and of our customer service levels.”

Client news: Kolbe’s impact resistant K-Force windows and doors provide coastal communities with safety, strength and beauty

Kolbe offers impact certified casement, awning, double hung, transom, segment head and half-circle top windows, plus outswing entrance doors and lift and slide doors.

Client news: More than 20,000 Kolbe products are ENERGY STAR qualified in both the U.S. and Canada

A sampling of the more than 20,000 Kolbe products that meet or exceed ENERGY STAR(R) criteria for both the U.S. and Canada will be exhibited at the 2012 International Builders Show (IBS) in booth W3729.

Client news: Terry Robinholt joins Tubelite as Central and Southwest regional sales manager

Tubelite Inc. has hired Terry Robinholt as regional sales manager for 21 states in the Central/Southwest region.

Client news: Kolbe maximizes views with oversized openings

Custom products from Kolbe’s Ultra Series will debut at IBS:
* a 90-degree wall unit for corner views,
* a 7-foot-tall awning window finished in black,
* a four-panel-wide Folding Window System to complement the Folding Door System, and
* a 10-foot-high door with a palm tree design.

Association news: AAMA announces 2012 schedule of events; Residential Green Certification nears completion at Annual Conference

* February 26-29, 75th Annual Conference at the Naples Grande Hotel (Waldorf Astoria) in Naples, Fla.
* April 10-11, Western Region Spring Meeting at the Embassy Suites Portland Airport Hotel in Portland, Ore.
* May 8-10, Southeast Region Spring Meeting at the Marriott Austin South in Austin, Texas
* June 10-13, AAMA National Summer Conference at the Marriott Oak Brook Hills located in Oak Brook, Ill.
* October 14-17, AAMA National Fall Conference at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya located in Santa Ana Pueblo (Albuquerque), N.M.